Simple Social Media Share Buttons <= 3.8.2 - Unauthenticated Password Protected Post Disclosure

5.3
Missing Authorization
CVE CVE-2023-5949
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published November 23, 2023
Last Updated December 22, 2023
Researcher Krzysztof Zając - CERT PL

Description

The Simple Social Media Share Buttons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 3.8.2 via meta tags. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to retrieve data from password protected posts that may have sensitive information.

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Vulnerability Details for SmartCrawl WordPress SEO checker, SEO analyzer, SEO optimizer

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug smartcrawl-seo (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 3.8.3, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 3.8.3
Patched Version
  • 3.8.3

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